Dr. Michael Grandner

But then after that, like you can, you can get, I mean, I work with athletes all the time.

Athletes tend to be pretty good at getting up in the morning because they wake up, they get light, they get movement first thing in the morning.

And we did this study looking at this called chronotype, which is like sort of where in the 24 hours are you?

Chronotype in athletes.

Maybe it's also self-selection where the teenagers who were just super late people

were less likely to survive the training schedules to make it to the elite level.

Who knows?

Or maybe they've adapted to it a little bit more.

But yeah, athletes tend to be, on average, not as much of a night owl as typical people their age.

hack you could you know get a little more get a little more and see how you perform because the data show over and over again that extending sleep especially in younger elite athletes when i'm talking about 60 year old but i'm talking about like 20 25 year olds 19 year olds 29 year olds like

Do an experiment.

Get more sleep if you can.

And there's some strategies for doing this.

Because if I just say spend an extra hour in bed, we just talked about how if you can't fill that time, you might actually create an insomnia.

So you might want to slowly increase the amount of time you're spending in bed.

Unless you're tired enough that just spending an hour in bed, you'll knock out anything.

That's how I like to do it.

I like to extend it by 15 minutes.

See if you do that, extend by another, because also you don't have to find an hour in the day.

You can always find 15 minutes.